Speaker 1: Welcome.
Speaker 2: It is a verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson
Speaker 2: with you. This is also a joint show because we're
Speaker 2: doing the convention coverage. So many of you listening to
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Speaker 2: of fun when we get to do these. Senator Day
Speaker 2: two Democratic Convention it has been brutal towards Joe Biden,
Speaker 2: to say the least, and they have moved on and
Speaker 2: kicked that guy to the curb.
Speaker 1: Joe who who? Right?
Speaker 3: This is day two, President right, so random, this is
Speaker 3: day two of the Democrat convention. We have seen angry protesters,
Speaker 3: viciously anti Semitic, israel hating pro Hamas, Marxist, anti American,
Speaker 3: violent protesters. And that's just inside the arena the actual delegates,
Speaker 3: never mind the people being arrested outside. This has been
Speaker 3: day two of the propaganda effort from the Democrat Party
Speaker 3: to erase Joe Biden, to kick him to the curb.
Speaker 3: Joe who, As I said a minute ago, that is
Speaker 3: the message of this convention. This is day two of
Speaker 3: the canonization of Kamala Harris trying to turn her into
Speaker 3: something she is not. And this is day two of
Speaker 3: the extreme policies that define the Democrat Party. We're going
Speaker 3: to break all of that down on today's pod.
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Speaker 2: Let's start with the end of day one, which really
Speaker 2: was part of day two. If you looked at your
Speaker 2: watch and you were in the Eastern time zone, they
Speaker 2: threw Joe Biden, I mean to the curb and made
Speaker 2: sure they buried him. It was like watching his him
Speaker 2: do his own eulogy. They wanted him late at night.
Speaker 2: They didn't want the American people to see it. They
Speaker 2: wanted to move on past him, and they threw him
Speaker 2: at eleven o'clock Eastern time, a little after eleven he
Speaker 2: went after midnight East time. And this is the sitting
Speaker 2: president of the United States of America. I said this earlier.
Speaker 2: If they'll do this to Joe Biden, you really think
Speaker 2: the Democratic Party or Kamwa Harris gives a crap about you,
Speaker 2: your family, your struggles, what you're making, inflation, interest rates,
Speaker 2: or anything else. They don't care about you. They don't
Speaker 2: even care about the sitting president.
Speaker 3: So the Democrat Party allowed Joe Biden to take the
Speaker 3: stage at eleven thirty seven pm Eastern Time. He finished,
Speaker 3: as you noted, after midnight. The vast majority of viewers
Speaker 3: had already turned off the TV. The vast majority of
Speaker 3: viewers may well have gone to bed. That was not
Speaker 3: an accident, that was by design. So understand, the Democrat
Speaker 3: Party is engaged in a massive gas lighting effort. It
Speaker 3: is a gas lighting effort that is driven by the media.
Speaker 3: They are trying to erase the fact that Joe Biden
Speaker 3: is the city being president of the United States right
Speaker 3: now today. He may not know it, but he is
Speaker 3: right now today. If God forbid, one of our enemies
Speaker 3: launches an attack on the United States, Joe Biden is
Speaker 3: still technically the commander in chief. Now, every Democrat in
Speaker 3: that convention knows Joe Biden is not mentally competent to
Speaker 3: make decisions about protecting this nation. He's certainly not mentally
Speaker 3: competent to make decisions about sending our sons and daughters
Speaker 3: into harms way. He's barely mentally competent to operate the
Speaker 3: TV remote control. They all know that. They also know
Speaker 3: that if Joe Biden were still the nominee, they would
Speaker 3: be losing. So they unceremoniously treated him like Joe Peshe
Speaker 3: and goodfellows. They invited him to the bar to be
Speaker 3: a made man. And he walks into the bar and
Speaker 3: the bar is empty, and his sentiment is, oh no man,
Speaker 3: oh no, oh no. And then you have Robert de
Speaker 3: Niro banging the phone, the payphone in into the receiver,
Speaker 3: so upset that Joe Biden peshe is gone. That's what
Speaker 3: we saw. Now. They did have some moments of poignancy,
Speaker 3: as we predicted in Monday's pod, they had some moments
Speaker 3: of oh, Biden is a great patriot. He put his
Speaker 3: country in front of himself. To be clear, Biden stepped down,
Speaker 3: I believe, not because he suddenly had this epiphandy that
Speaker 3: Kamala was the right nominee.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 3: Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Barack Obama all teamed
Speaker 3: up together to give him an ultimatum, Joe, you either
Speaker 3: stepped down or we will invoke the twenty fifth Amendment
Speaker 3: and throw you out of office. I don't think there
Speaker 3: was any They tried persuasion, They tried it for a
Speaker 3: couple of months. It didn't work, he didn't want to
Speaker 3: do it, and I think they utilized brute force and
Speaker 3: forced him out of office. And then I got to
Speaker 3: say to bury him. After midnight, Joe Biden was literally
Speaker 3: competing with QVC in the shop channel with with with
Speaker 3: eighty year olds with blue hair selling fake diamond earrings.
Speaker 3: That was his competition when he was on air. That
Speaker 3: says something about the Democrat Party and and and and
Speaker 3: their interest is simply memory holding him. And part of
Speaker 3: the reason. Look, the whole pitch for Kamala is things
Speaker 3: really suck now, but elect Kamala and they'll be better now.
Speaker 3: A really inconvenient problem with that, it's the Democrats are
Speaker 3: in power. It's their administration. If things are terrible, well,
Speaker 3: who's put in place the policies that have made them terrible?
Speaker 3: And and by the way, if Kamala has this this
Speaker 3: magic bag of solutions, she's gonna wave her wand and
Speaker 3: suddenly grocery grocery prices are going to plummet. Well, why
Speaker 3: isn't she waving her wand right now? It is entirely
Speaker 3: smoking mirrors deception. And that's why they wanted Joe Biden
Speaker 3: after midnight, because they wanted nobody in America to listen
Speaker 3: to a word the man had to say.
Speaker 2: And you move into day two, and it was interesting
Speaker 2: because no one was talking about him until Barack Obama
Speaker 2: went up on stage. He did a nice hey, there's
Speaker 2: a reason why I picked Joe Biden to be my
Speaker 2: vice president X number of years ago, and the place
Speaker 2: started doing their chant we Love Joe, And I'm sitting
Speaker 2: there and I'm laughing because I'm like, dude, you were
Speaker 2: just a part of the coup. Like Michelle Obama was
Speaker 2: on right before you. She was a part of the coup.
Speaker 2: You were in the in the Godfather families, right, the
Speaker 2: big five that got together, the Pelosis and the Schoomers
Speaker 2: and the Obamas and the Clintons and the news. You know,
Speaker 2: Jeffreys in the house that said we're done with you.
Speaker 2: We're gonna force you out. And I'm laughing because he's like,
Speaker 2: but he goes up there and say, he's like, let
Speaker 2: me tell you why Joe was so great and why
Speaker 2: I picked him. Now, let me move immediately on to
Speaker 2: Kama Harris after we screwed him and we kicked him
Speaker 2: out of the building last night.
Speaker 3: And remember it was done entirely for one reason, because
Speaker 3: they realized he'd lose. Barack Obama was fine having a
Speaker 3: barely conscious octogenarian as president because he was a perfectly
Speaker 3: acceptable puppet. I believe Barack Obama has been the one
Speaker 3: pulling the strings the entire time. He was fine with that.
Speaker 3: He would have been fine for another four years with
Speaker 3: with with Joe Biden going to Loubi's at four pm
Speaker 3: for the jello and being asleep at six that fit
Speaker 3: his needs until it became clear Biden was going to leave.
Speaker 3: This is about power, and this is about airbrushing history,
Speaker 3: about gaslighting the American people to claim Kamala Harris was
Speaker 3: never the borders are Nope, these are not the droids
Speaker 3: you're looking for.
Speaker 1: Nope.
Speaker 3: Kamala Harris never said she'd banfracking. Never mind the videos
Speaker 3: that do not believe your lying eyes. Everything they're saying,
Speaker 3: no taxes on tips, great idea came from Donald Trump. Nope, Nope,
Speaker 3: this was always Kamala's idea, despite the fact that they've
Speaker 3: never seen a tax on planet Earth. They wanted to
Speaker 3: cut that. Every time Kamala has ever talked about taxes,
Speaker 3: it's been and raised them, raise them, raise them. This
Speaker 3: is all about a deliberate effort to erase current reality
Speaker 3: and replace with a Truman Show, artificial tempkin village.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you move into the theme.
Speaker 2: The theme of the Night Night two is I was
Speaker 2: sitting there watching this was very clear it's going back
Speaker 2: to play the hits.
Speaker 3: So hold on, hold on. What was the theme? We
Speaker 3: hate billionaires and we love billionaires. I want you to
Speaker 3: play these two segments. I want you to play Bernie Sanders,
Speaker 3: and then I want you to play the very next speaker, JB. Pritzker,
Speaker 3: because I want you to listen to these two side
Speaker 3: by side, because it really is priceless the hypocrisy of
Speaker 3: today's Democrat party. Give a listen.
Speaker 4: We need an economy that works for all of uts,
Speaker 4: not just the billionaire class. My fellow Americans, when sixty
Speaker 4: percent of our people live paycheck to paycheck, the top
Speaker 4: one percent have never ever had it so good.
Speaker 1: Now they are clap center.
Speaker 2: Which was quite funny because literally the next speaker is
Speaker 2: a billionaire that they invited to come up on the stage.
Speaker 3: So the very next speaker is the sitting Democrat governor
Speaker 3: of Illinois, and he's rich. He's not just a little rich,
Speaker 3: he's a lot rich. He's a lot rich in the
Speaker 3: classic way that Democrats are a lot rich, which is
Speaker 3: he didn't make it, h say elf, he inherited it.
Speaker 3: And now he wants to tax the hell out everyone
Speaker 3: else and stop everyone else from becoming rich. But have
Speaker 3: a listen to literally the very next speaker, So Bernie Sanders,
Speaker 3: if I could summon up in one sentence, billionaires, Oh bad,
Speaker 3: next speaker, play it.
Speaker 2: Thinks that we should trust him on the economy because
Speaker 2: he claims to be very rich.
Speaker 1: But take it from an actual billionaire.
Speaker 2: I mean he's bragged. Take it from an actual building.
Speaker 2: He's say, Donald trump' snow billionaire, I'm a billionaire. One
Speaker 2: speaker apart, this is the Democratic Convention. And then you
Speaker 2: add in this class warfare. Michelle Obama, let me make
Speaker 2: another point about that. Yeah, Bernie says, sixty percent of
Speaker 2: Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. The top one percent
Speaker 2: have never had it so good. Help me on this bend.
Speaker 2: Who's the current president. That would be a guy by
Speaker 2: the name of Joe Biden.
Speaker 3: I think who's the current vice president?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Kamala Harris, Who's action who's the.
Speaker 3: Current majority leader of the Senate?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be a Democrat Schumer.
Speaker 3: So Bernie is saying, when we the Democrats are in power,
Speaker 3: the top one percent, the billionaires have never had it
Speaker 3: so good. And then Pritzker goes, I have a billionaire,
Speaker 3: and the crowd goes nuts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then Michelle Obama and it was clearly they
Speaker 2: went for class warfare as the theme of the night.
Speaker 2: She came out and said her parents were quote suspicious
Speaker 2: of folks who took more than they needed.
Speaker 1: Now I have I want to hold.
Speaker 3: Out that that can't be right. I can't believe that.
Speaker 3: Play the clip, because she couldn't have said that. No
Speaker 3: one can be that unself aware. How is that possible?
Speaker 3: Let's hear what she said.
Speaker 5: You see, my mom, in her steady, quiet way, lived
Speaker 5: out that striving sense of hope every single day of
Speaker 5: her life. She believed that all children, all people, have value,
Speaker 5: that anyone can succeed have given the opportunity. She and
Speaker 5: my father didn't aspire to be wealthy. In fact, they
Speaker 5: were suspicious of folks who took more than they needed.
Speaker 2: I love it because, and again I want to be clear,
Speaker 2: I want my kids to be successful. That doesn't mean
Speaker 2: they have to be rich to be successful. But I
Speaker 2: don't fault anyone for being successful. But when you come
Speaker 2: out and you say it the way she did, it
Speaker 2: sounds like communism one on one.
Speaker 1: And can I just.
Speaker 2: Remind everybody they have at least three houses that we
Speaker 2: know of, they got a net worth of one hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty million dollars.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on.
Speaker 3: So she says they didn't trust anyone who took more
Speaker 3: than they needed, and the entire stadium erupted an applause. Look,
Speaker 3: this is a stadium full of Marxists, but like all Marxists,
Speaker 3: they're hypocrites. Michelle Obama stood there as you noted, she
Speaker 3: owns three houses. Let me ask you, Ben, how many
Speaker 3: houses do you own?
Speaker 1: I've got one. I'm just a commoner like that, So.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you also, Ben. They have a multimillion
Speaker 3: dollars a state in Martha's vineyard. How big is your
Speaker 3: state in Martha's vineyard?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't have one of those.
Speaker 3: They fly private jets everywhere they go. Do you have
Speaker 3: a private jet?
Speaker 2: I do not have one. I would love to have one,
Speaker 2: but I do not have one. I'm still a commoner,
Speaker 2: So my question, look, I don't fault. And by the way,
Speaker 2: Michelle Obama and Barack Obama get paid hundreds of thousands
Speaker 2: of dollars for giving paid speeches. Do you get paid
Speaker 2: hundreds of thousand dollars to give speak? And she got
Speaker 2: seven hundred and fifty grand, it was reported for a
Speaker 2: one hour speech earlier this year.
Speaker 3: Apparently, you know, let me just ask, is seven hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty thousand dollars more? Than she needed, because she
Speaker 3: just said that her mom didn't trust people who took
Speaker 3: more than she needed. And by the way, you're a
Speaker 3: published author. Have you gotten paid tens of millions of
Speaker 3: dollars for your books?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: No, I did not, Okay, I actually I was trying
Speaker 3: to make a point about Michelle. I'm just feeling bad
Speaker 3: about you.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: Now, Man, I look, you're a capitalist, you're a conservative.
Speaker 3: I was actually trying to call her a hypocrite. But
Speaker 3: I'm now just thinking, Ben, you need to work harder.
Speaker 1: I need to work harder.
Speaker 2: I need to I need to sell this this class
Speaker 2: warfare crap, right, just just sign up and sell it
Speaker 2: and just say, hey, I'm a Democrat.
Speaker 1: Everybody else be poor.
Speaker 2: I'll get rich off of a party that you can convince,
Speaker 2: apparently of anything, including that you shouldn't take more than
Speaker 2: your fair share. When you're sitting there, going to which house?
Speaker 2: Are we going back tonight? Honey?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 2: Are we going to DC? Are we going to the vineyard?
Speaker 2: Are we going to California? We're going to Hawaii? Are
Speaker 2: we what plan are we going to take tonight?
Speaker 3: That is the listening. To be clear, I don't fault
Speaker 3: Barack and Michelle Obama for their financial success. What I
Speaker 3: do fault them for is utter and complete hypocrisy. What
Speaker 3: I fault them for is pushing the notion that anyone
Speaker 3: who is successful is wrong and evil unless, unless, unless
Speaker 3: they bow to the knee of to the leftist Democrat Party.
Speaker 3: You can be celebrated as a billionaire if you're a communist,
Speaker 3: if you want to tax people oppressively, control them oppressively,
Speaker 3: if you support leftist policies, it's okay. If not, they
Speaker 3: will demonize you. And it's that utter hypocrisy that is
Speaker 3: just galling.
Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting because you mentioned that, and I
Speaker 2: wasn't putting on playing this, but I'm going to now.
Speaker 2: This party has been a party of endless, hateful rhetoric.
Speaker 2: This is a party that even on TV over the
Speaker 2: last twenty four hours, had implied that maybe JD. Van
Speaker 2: somebody should be raped in their family, have to go
Speaker 2: through what a rape victim goes through and have a child,
Speaker 2: and then double down on it, refuse to apologize for that.
Speaker 2: This is the party that's out there getting arrested and
Speaker 2: fighting and saying that should be death to Israel, death
Speaker 2: to Jesus. The party that went after Donald Trump in
Speaker 2: every capacity could, whether it was trying to lock him up,
Speaker 2: take all his property, frame him for crimes he didn't commit,
Speaker 2: and then try to coop attempt on him by a
Speaker 2: document that they knew they paid for in the Steal Dossier.
Speaker 2: But Michelle Obama got up there on stage and she said,
Speaker 2: this again, the same party of endless, hateful rhetoric of.
Speaker 5: A brighter day, the chance to vanquish the demons of fear, division,
Speaker 5: and hate that have consumed us, and continue pursuing the
Speaker 5: unfinished promise of this great nation.
Speaker 1: What world are we living in?
Speaker 2: Alternative universe where you get to go up on stage
Speaker 2: and say that while you're the party. She also said,
Speaker 2: by the way, quote unquote a moment later, we don't
Speaker 2: get to change the rules, so we always win. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: did you guys not just have a coup against a
Speaker 2: sitting president throwned after midnight and hand somebody because you
Speaker 2: wanted a chance to quote always win all the delegates
Speaker 2: that no one voted for her? Did that not just
Speaker 2: happen in the last four weeks?
Speaker 3: So understand what happened last night. For the first time
Speaker 3: in modern history, a major political party has nominated as
Speaker 3: president a human being for whom not one single person
Speaker 3: on planet Earth in this year voted for as president.
Speaker 3: That is unprecedented, and yet there's no acknowledgment of it.
Speaker 3: And in fact, there is the self righteous preening that
Speaker 3: they are defending democracy even while making a mockery of democracy.
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Speaker 2: of that. They're saying her name over and over and
Speaker 2: over and over again. They're trying to prop her up. However,
Speaker 2: DC insiders are saying there's quote deep fear inside the
Speaker 2: Democratic Party that Kamala Harris is Walter Mondale two point
Speaker 2: zero who lost in a landslide to Reagan after campaigning
Speaker 2: on tax hikes, which they have now put out there,
Speaker 2: and they worry that actually Kamala may be worse because
Speaker 2: you're dealing with tax hikes plus record inflation, plus government
Speaker 2: price controls communism that she said we need, and not
Speaker 2: even Mondale campaigned on that. That is still the fear
Speaker 2: behind the scenes. Just to put it in perspective. By
Speaker 2: the way, Mondale when he campaigned, inflation was eighteen percent
Speaker 2: back then their early nineteen eighties, using the government's previous
Speaker 2: formula factoring and rising rates and more, it is likely
Speaker 2: now higher than it was then when it comes to
Speaker 2: the actual consumer going to the store.
Speaker 3: So listen, those concerns of Democrats are are well founded.
Speaker 3: You know, if you look at number one, this election,
Speaker 3: this election, next year, in twenty twenty five, most of
Speaker 3: the twenty seventeen tax cuts are expiring. Donald Trump has
Speaker 3: said if he's president, he will extend those tax cuts,
Speaker 3: and we will need a Republican House and Senate. If
Speaker 3: we have a Republican House and Senate and Donald Trump
Speaker 3: and the White House, we will extend the twenty seventeen
Speaker 3: tax cuts, and I hope and believe will make them
Speaker 3: even bigger and bolder. That's what I'm arguing for, is
Speaker 3: not just extend them, but have even bigger and bolder
Speaker 3: tax cuts that will help working families, help job creators,
Speaker 3: help turn the economy around. That is multiple trillions of dollars.
Speaker 3: On the flip side, Kamala Harris has said if she
Speaker 3: is president, she will allow the tax cuts to expire.
Speaker 3: That will result in a more multiple trillion of dollar
Speaker 3: trillions of dollar tax increase. The Wall Street Journal has
Speaker 3: dubbed this election the six trillion dollar election because that's
Speaker 3: the delta in taxes, six trillion dollars between Trump cutting
Speaker 3: taxes and Kamala raising taxes. That is a massive amount.
Speaker 3: This is also the first time in your in my
Speaker 3: lifetime since Walter Mondale, that a major party presidential nominee
Speaker 3: has campaigned on massive tax increases. And Mondale ran in
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty four. Now, now, I don't know, you may
Speaker 3: not have been old enough to remember that election. I
Speaker 3: remember it well and I was in I was three.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna age myself down right now and just make
Speaker 3: you feel a little bit older, sir, and I enjoy
Speaker 3: this moment. Listen. Reagan had a way of making you
Speaker 3: feel young and youthful and optimistic, and so you knew
Speaker 3: at age three it was morning in America.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 3: So in the debate in nineteen eighty four, Walter Mondale,
Speaker 3: who like Tim Waltz, was from Minnesota, Walter Mondale turned
Speaker 3: to Reagan and he said in the debate, he said,
Speaker 3: both of the candidates on this stage are going to
Speaker 3: raise your taxes. And he points at Reagan and says,
Speaker 3: he won't tell you that I just did. Walter Mondale
Speaker 3: lost forty nine states. The only state he one was
Speaker 3: his home state of Minnesota, and he almost lost that one.
Speaker 3: Kamala is now trying to retread that path. Now we're
Speaker 3: living in a different world and in nineteen eighty four
Speaker 3: you actually had a functioning media, You had journalists who
Speaker 3: reported on facts. We now have a media who are
Speaker 3: engaged in NonStop, relentless propaganda. And what is dangerous about
Speaker 3: this election and part of the reason Kamala is enjoying
Speaker 3: a surge right now, the media intends to spend billions
Speaker 3: of dollars between now an election day trying to canonize her,
Speaker 3: trying to lionize her, trying to turn her into Saint Kamala.
Speaker 3: And and so we'll see if explicitly saying she's going
Speaker 3: to jack up everyone's taxes, if that hurts her. We'll
Speaker 3: also see if being the borders are and presiding over
Speaker 3: the worst illegal immigration our nation's history, if that hurts her.
Speaker 3: We'll see if bailing out violent criminals rioting in Minneapolis,
Speaker 3: if that hurts her. And in my view, and you
Speaker 3: and I have talked about this on this pod multiple times,
Speaker 3: if this election is about the issues, we win, Kamala
Speaker 3: and the Democrats and the media all desperately, desperately, desperately
Speaker 3: want to make it not about the issues, make it
Speaker 3: about fuzzy personality and feel good sentiments. And if they
Speaker 3: do that, they believe they can win.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in thedemic crats. Look, yeah, they dropped Biden, that's
Speaker 2: a fact. But make no mistake about it. Kama Harris
Speaker 2: is why.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Who's that random guy? Some guy that they is playing
Speaker 2: president of the United States of America.
Speaker 3: I saw an old guy kind of yelling at the TV.
Speaker 3: Who was he?
Speaker 1: That's I actually did Joe?
Speaker 3: I actually didn't, drug I didn't because I'd gone to
Speaker 3: sleep by then. But but but I'm told there was someone.
Speaker 2: All right, let's geek out for a second on policy,
Speaker 2: because this is when I love doing this show, and
Speaker 2: I love comparing the history of what was happening, and
Speaker 2: go back to Mondale. Mondale was an old school Democrat, right,
Speaker 2: it was the old school tax, spend and regulate democrat.
Speaker 2: That that was what he was. That was the lane.
Speaker 2: You look at Harrison Wallace. Now they're just to eliminate
Speaker 2: all that. When it comes to market driven economy, we
Speaker 2: don't believe in that, right. We replace that with an
Speaker 2: authoritarian socialist state with new programs and crazy ideas like DEI,
Speaker 2: where we pick our best people in jobs by the
Speaker 2: color of their skin, not by their qualifications. We put
Speaker 2: in price controls. And if you don't believe this is
Speaker 2: what Harris believes, let me remind you of what Harris
Speaker 2: said back in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: I will snatch their patent.
Speaker 3: So that we will take over.
Speaker 1: And yes we can do that. Yes, yes we can
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 3: Yes we can do that. It's the question is do
Speaker 3: you have the will to do it. I have the
Speaker 3: will to do it.
Speaker 2: I mean she was talking there about ideas in a
Speaker 2: patent that was in Iowa, and it was played a
Speaker 2: little bit back then. But it's a reminder she doesn't
Speaker 2: believe that anything that anyone creates and or does is theirs.
Speaker 2: I can snatch up any idea I want to. I
Speaker 2: can stantch up any business I want to. I can
Speaker 2: snatch up any any industry that.
Speaker 1: I want to.
Speaker 2: This is what they are now. This is not what
Speaker 2: Mondale was and the old school Democrat of hey, you know,
Speaker 2: high taxes, spend a lot of money and regulate.
Speaker 3: This is completely different. So Bernie Sanders is openly a socialist.
Speaker 3: He's not actually a member of the Democrat Party. He
Speaker 3: runs as a socialist in Vermont. Elizabeth Warren is at
Speaker 3: least a hardcore socialist. Kamala's voting record is to the
Speaker 3: left of both of them. I served with her in
Speaker 3: the Senate. I know Kamala well one hundred percent of
Speaker 3: the time. She voted hard, hard left. This is a
Speaker 3: party I believe that today is a Marxist party. Now
Speaker 3: Marxist is not just an empty pejorative. This is a
Speaker 3: party that is born of academic elites. This is a
Speaker 3: party that is born of the same Marxists that have
Speaker 3: taken over our universities, that have corrupted our universities. Reason
Speaker 3: that you don't see people at this Democrat party talking
Speaker 3: about October seventh because their sympathies are with the hamas terrorists,
Speaker 3: because like any good Marxists, they divide the world into
Speaker 3: victims and oppressors, and they view Jews as oppressors and
Speaker 3: Palestinians as victims. When it comes to the clip you
Speaker 3: just played, when she's saying we can snatch your patent,
Speaker 3: we can seize your property. Understand, patent is intellectual property.
Speaker 3: It is something you've invented, you owned, it is your
Speaker 3: property rights. And she's saying, we the government can take
Speaker 3: whatever you have if we want it. That's a sentiment
Speaker 3: that Marxists have always expressed there is no private property.
Speaker 3: We are in charge, and that is the view. Sadly
Speaker 3: that is becoming more and more commonplace in this Democrat Party. Now,
Speaker 3: Kamala and the media will do everything they can to
Speaker 3: hide those views for the next eighty days. They don't
Speaker 3: want the voters to know that they're going to paint
Speaker 3: her as nice and simple and normal and happy days
Speaker 3: are here again, because they are trying to offuskate how
Speaker 3: radically out of touch her record is.
Speaker 2: You also have the optics of the party right now,
Speaker 2: and the Democratic Party is very much acting like they
Speaker 2: are united. But there was some reporting that came out
Speaker 2: night two and it said VP Kamwa Harris held an
Speaker 2: event ninety miles away from the DNC on the night
Speaker 2: the party's two most popular figures, Barack and Michelle Obama,
Speaker 2: campaign on her behalf, and a source familiar with the
Speaker 2: DNC planning tells Fox that the choice was made out
Speaker 2: of sensitivity and respect for quote Joe Biden. Obamas are
Speaker 2: still not on the White House good side quote unquote
Speaker 2: why because well, they were part of the coup. A
Speaker 2: source familiar with the situation said, quote it would not
Speaker 2: be helpful helpful to their relationships. Quote unquote, Fox has
Speaker 2: told this and came together to avoid the optics of
Speaker 2: Harris still serving as Biden's VP, appearing alongside one of
Speaker 2: the figures he views as responsible for driving him out
Speaker 2: of office, driving the end of his reelection bid at
Speaker 2: the very convention which was supposed to be his only
Speaker 2: weeks ago. Quote, we are in tricky territory, the source
Speaker 2: said to Fox. Now, I find a little bit of
Speaker 2: hope in this because you mentioned the media. You mentioned
Speaker 2: everything's supposed to be kumbaya, but there's still a lot
Speaker 2: going on behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: There are still people.
Speaker 2: By the way, and I tweeted this out when I
Speaker 2: was watching Michelle Obama and she came out. I said,
Speaker 2: go and compare the crowd noise and the excitement when
Speaker 2: Michelle Obama walked out to when Kamwa Harris walked out.
Speaker 2: And they love Michelle more than they love their president
Speaker 2: for their candidate for the White House.
Speaker 3: Well, look, that's clearly true. And you and I eleven
Speaker 3: months ago predicted number one that Joe Biden the Democrats
Speaker 3: would throw them off the ticket. We were right on that.
Speaker 3: But number two, I predicted that they would replace him
Speaker 3: with Michelle Obama. Now, I got to say, if they had,
Speaker 3: I think their odds of winning would be very, very high.
Speaker 3: If I were a Democrat, I would have been all
Speaker 3: in on the team Michelle, because Michelle would have been
Speaker 3: an incredibly formidable candidate. I think they tried to convince
Speaker 3: Michelle to do it. I think she said no. And
Speaker 3: you and I talked about at the time what would
Speaker 3: prevent that? And I said two things would prevent that.
Speaker 3: One if Joe refused to go, And I think he
Speaker 3: did refuse to go for a month after month after
Speaker 3: month until they finally forced him out by threatening the
Speaker 3: twenty fifth Amendment. And then I said number two, maybe,
Speaker 3: just maybe Michelle would say no. Why because she likes
Speaker 3: to take more than she needs. Why because she likes
Speaker 3: to fly on a G five? Why because she likes
Speaker 3: Martha's vineyard. Why because she likes to party with Oprah
Speaker 3: Winfrey and George Clooney. Why because she lives the life
Speaker 3: of a movie star and so decided not to do that.
Speaker 3: Now I'm grateful for America that she did, because, as
Speaker 3: I said, she would have been an incredibly dangerous candidate.
Speaker 3: But I got to say, listening last night to Michelle
Speaker 3: Obama and listening to Barack Obama, those two may be
Speaker 3: the two most dangerous demagogues our country has seen in
Speaker 3: a generation. Barack Obama listening to him talk that man
Speaker 3: is a talented communicator. I disagree with him on virtually
Speaker 3: every issue. I think Barack Obama is the progenitor of
Speaker 3: the Marxist takeover of the Democrat Party. I think that
Speaker 3: is his ideology. It is born of the radical extremism
Speaker 3: in our universities, but he can dress it up in
Speaker 3: a way that it doesn't sound extreme. It is dangerous.
Speaker 3: And I'll say one thing I thought about last night
Speaker 3: during the convention. Thank God for the twenty second Amendment.
Speaker 3: Thank God for the limitation of two terms as a president,
Speaker 3: because if Barack Obama was still running, he might be
Speaker 3: president for another decade. And so I'm grateful that he
Speaker 3: can't formally have the job. But he remains incredibly potent
Speaker 3: and incredibly dangerous because he masks up extreme radicalism in
Speaker 3: a way that seems innocuous, that seems non threatening, and
Speaker 3: it seems very hip and very cool. Well, I stop
Speaker 3: watching it.
Speaker 2: He literally demonized Republicans for thirty one minutes and then
Speaker 2: called for unity I mean, who can do that unless
Speaker 2: you're an incredibly talented politician where you trash the other side.
Speaker 2: And by the way, I'm still waiting for somebody in
Speaker 2: prime time to say they're glad that Donald Trump is
Speaker 2: alive and wasn't and wasn't assassinated. That's not ever, that
Speaker 2: hasn't come out of anybody's mouth.
Speaker 3: Now they're trying to gas gas like that and and
Speaker 3: just completely erase it from public consciousness that it even happened.
Speaker 2: And and and here we are to questions I want
Speaker 2: to dive into real quick. I haven't seen a lot
Speaker 2: of American flags of the Democratic Convention, except if they're
Speaker 2: being burnt outside of the DNC. Democratic supporters are there
Speaker 2: burning the American flag. We are seeing a I would
Speaker 2: argue a fair amount of arrests. We've had a second
Speaker 2: perimeter wall that's had to be put up because of
Speaker 2: the pro Hamas pro terrorist protesters. We're able to break
Speaker 2: through the first wall yesterday and the Chicago police. You know,
Speaker 2: for Democrats, they're all about defund the police until they
Speaker 2: needed to protect their convention. And many of the Democrats
Speaker 2: are being protected by these police are the same ones
Speaker 2: that have been demonizing and attacking the police. One of them,
Speaker 2: by the way, is Kamwa Harris. Let's not let her
Speaker 2: off the hook for that. And we also found out
Speaker 2: from the people in charge they said, don't worry if
Speaker 2: it's a misdemeanor, no one's going to be charged of
Speaker 2: any crime. So go out there and do what you
Speaker 2: want during the convention.
Speaker 3: So I think it's worth asking yourself, why is it
Speaker 3: the anti Israel Prohamas protesters burn the American flag? And
Speaker 3: the reason is simple. Those who hate Israel hate America.
Speaker 3: And when you understand that simple reality, it tells you
Speaker 3: an enormous part amount about the delegates that are in
Speaker 3: that convention hall. Why is Josh Sapiro not Kamala Harris's
Speaker 3: VP nominee? Answer because he's Jewish and Kamala Harris and
Speaker 3: the Democrat Party did not want to piss off the
Speaker 3: angry protesters outside who are burning American flags. That is
Speaker 3: more and more the base of the Democrat Party. And understand,
Speaker 3: they don't just hate Israel, they hate America as well.
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Speaker 2: into the political crystal ball. Senator, you still have a
Speaker 2: candidate that the Democratic Party isn't that excited about that.
Speaker 2: Behind the scenes, they're worried and nervous that the coronation
Speaker 2: is now coming back down to the reality, which is
Speaker 2: she was not liked as a vice president for the
Speaker 2: last three and a half years. She was not liked
Speaker 2: as a presidential candidate either, and was like one of
Speaker 2: the first ones out of the race. And now she's
Speaker 2: back in prime time. What does she have to do
Speaker 2: to sell herself to the American people? Can she overcome
Speaker 2: all of that or are they just screwed because Harris
Speaker 2: is at the end of the day still Harris.
Speaker 3: Well, look they're motivated by two things. Number one, a
Speaker 3: lust for power. And Democrats are united in a lust
Speaker 3: for power. They are willing to do just about anything
Speaker 3: to stay in power. They were perfectly willing to be
Speaker 3: behind a president who is all but comatose. They knew that,
Speaker 3: everybody knew that, and yet it kept them in power.
Speaker 3: So it was just fine with them to have a
Speaker 3: commander in chief who was not capable of defending this nation.
Speaker 3: By the way, it's also why they're willing to embrace
Speaker 3: policies like open borders and the invasion of this country
Speaker 3: because they look at eleven and a half million million
Speaker 3: illegal immigrants as future Democrat voters, and so power justifies everything.
Speaker 3: And this is a Democrat party that they follow orders.
Speaker 3: They they are collectivists, they are authoritarians, so they all
Speaker 3: follow orders. So everyone is on team Kamala. By the way,
Speaker 3: I don't think you're going to hear much complaining, even
Speaker 3: from the Biden circles about him being forced out, because
Speaker 3: when they crack the whip, this is a party that
Speaker 3: everybody gets on board, even Joe Biden after he's been
Speaker 3: put out to pasture. But secondly, what is going to
Speaker 3: motivate Democrats in this election, hatred for Donald J.
Speaker 1: Trump.
Speaker 3: It's why the word Trump is the most frequent word
Speaker 3: uttered at the convention, because that's what they're all unified.
Speaker 3: They might disagree on other things, but they all agree
Speaker 3: we hate Trump. Those two things are going to motivate
Speaker 3: a lot of Democrats. And we got to make sure
Speaker 3: that the American people are focused on the issues, focused
Speaker 3: on the policy, focused on the substance, focused on the
Speaker 3: failures of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden's policies and how
Speaker 3: they've hurt the American people. If we can focus on
Speaker 3: the issues, we win.
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